Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Totally game-changing. And then finally, November 2013, rumored but leaked to many, many press outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Mark Zuckerberg makes an offer to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. He does. Nobody knows exactly where the leak came from there. I think Zuckerberg sort of alleged, and we know this from the Sony email leaks, Zuckerberg alleged that it was a tactic by Evan. Evan throws back that it could have just as easily been Zuckerberg to try and dampen their fundraising efforts rather than bolster them. But anyway, it never really comes to fruition and all we know is that the offer was made. It didn’t happen. We know the offer was made and we know it didn’t happen. I mean, you both have to put yourself in Mark Zuckerberg’s shoes here. Less than a year ago, he flew down to LA and he basically sat there, according to what’s been disclosed and what we can read about, he sat there and he told Evan how to build Snapchat and how he would do it and what the right way to do it is. And oh by the way, Facebook was just going to do it. So, good luck with your little app. And then less than a year later, he’s again sitting there offering to pay $3 billion in cash for this little app.…

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